A Ukraine without Ukrainians: Putin is erasing Europe's largest nation When Ukrainian schoolchildren in Russian-occupied regions of the country return to the classroom following the summer holidays, they will no longer be able to receive even minimal instruction in their country’s national language. This blanket ban on Ukrainian language education...

A Ukraine without Ukrainians: Putin is erasing Europe's largest nation
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A Ukraine without Ukrainians: Putin is erasing Europe’s largest nation Russia is systematically erasing all traces of Ukrainian national identity throughout occupied Ukraine as Vladimir Putin pursues an extreme form of eliminationist imperialism in the heart of twenty-fi...

A Ukraine without Ukrainians: Putin’s invasion is not a conventional war for land of resources, it is a genocidal campaign to destroy Ukraine as a state and as a nation. New evidence of this eliminationist agenda emerges every day from occupied Ukraine

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

YouTube video by DW News Anne Applebaum: 'The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism' | DW News

“The war will be over when Putin realizes that he can't win”

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social makes good observations.

Missing: Putin’s Power Psychosis is coupled to media control and disinformation (promotes his views) - a pattern now trying to take root in the U.S.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_R...

YouTube video by DW News Anne Applebaum: 'The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism' | DW News

The war will be over when Putin realizes that he can't win
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_R...

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”

(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)

❗️🇺🇦 GUR has obtained further evidence of the abduction of Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories by Russians.

▪️Intelligence officers gained access to the servers of the so-called "government of Crimea".

When I read about this this morning, I almost fell out of my chair. These idiots have no idea what they’re talking about and yet their conspiracy theorizing is dictating massive policies and petty, vindictive bullshit like this…

‘Loyalty Enforcer’ Laura Loomer Targets Additional Officials

“Eventually, when all of the qualified people are driven out and only the people acceptable to Laura Loomer remain, there could be an extremely bad result for the United States in some international crisis”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

There’s nothing really “ideological” about either Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro. Their commonality is their corruption and criminality.

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

The US government has sent innocent men to be beaten and raped in a foreign gulag

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians

How the Threat of Trump’s Highest Tariff Derailed an African Nation

Trump randomly announced huge tariffs on Lesotho in April, for no rational reason. Enormous economic consequences have already followed

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

The Dissident Who Keeps Fighting Masih Alinejad hasn’t given up yet on America.

When Masih Alinejad was a young girl in Iran, she was forced to shout “Death to America.” Now she wants to dedicate her life to protecting American democracy.

She joins Garry Kasparov on “Autocracy in America”:

The aftermath of the Russian strike on Kherson 💔

Russia has further complicated logistics of getting food and other necessities to that area, and left its residents without gas.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

6/ Of course big donors have always had access to politicians. But the scope and sophistication of this access operation is unprecedented.

And NEVER before has a President openly made money personally off selling access like this.

We shouldn't accept any of it.

Trump-aligned club for the ultra rich launches in Washington The launch of “Executive Branch” comes as Trump world looks to remake Washington.

5/ His family gets in on the grift too. His son is opening a new private club in DC - with a $500,000 entry fee. Donald Jr. markets it as the place to meet with his father's Cabinet. They don't even hide the access game, naming it "The Executive Branch".

Trump crypto soars as US president offers dinner to top holders The meme coin's website says its 220 top investors will be invited to a gala event with the president.

4/ Trump also sells access to him for those who send money directly to Trump's wallet. This spring, he held a reception with the top buyers of his crypto coin. News of the opportunity immediately drove up the price of the coin, making Trump millions.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

3/ One crypto CEO who paid the $1 million price explained to the @nytimes that after his meeting with Trump, his idea to make money off the federal government was suddenly "making the rounds...so mission accomplished from my view.”

People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a gro...

2/ The primary way to get to Trump is at his golf clubs. Reportedly, a $5 million donation to Trump's political operation gets you a one-on-one meeting. $1 million will get you a group private dinner.

Putting a price on a one-on-one meeting isn't normal.

The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.

No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.

1/ It's a story you need to know.

American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine:

"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️

31 July 2025: Russia murdered these children in Kyiv

Lev Lamekhovyi, 2 - killed with his father and pregnant mother
Matvii Marchenko, 6
Roman Haiovyi, 17 - killed with his mother, brother, and uncle
Alina Humeniuk, 10
Nastia Humeniuk, 13 - sisters died together with their mother

#russiakills

Russia targeting voters across EU, Moldova warns Moscow is hoping pro-European Moldovans living abroad don’t go out to vote in September’s elections, the country’s national security chief told POLITICO.

Russia is ramping up efforts to influence Moldovans living abroad across Europe to try to sway critical elections next month, the EU candidate country’s security chief has warned.

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

On the one hand, a patriot with decades of experience defending America. On the other hand, a conspiracy theorist who hates Americans and American institutions. Presented here as "two visions of America under Trump"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Applebaum on Autocracy Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

“For news organizations, the issue isn’t responsibility, but survival. Autocratic leaders don’t want evidence-based journalism of any kind to exist at all: They want to shape reality, to decide themselves what is true and false.” — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

Global study finds COVID vaccination spared millions from early death worldwide In just four years, vaccines against COVID-19 prevented more than 2.5 million deaths worldwide. A groundbreaking new study puts a number to the impact many hoped for during the darkest days of the pandemic. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t just...

Global study finds COVID vaccination spared millions from early death worldwide
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Strange that the Russian police didn’t like their videos. They put in so much effort.